#SpotlightSaturday this week is the final in the Breakfast at Bennett's series by E.M. Denning. The Outcast is an age gap story wrapping up the series with Ethan and Mickey's story. The excerpt is super sweet, so once you've enjoyed that, the book and the whole series is available now.
From the blurb:
Ethan Bennett is too old for Mickey.
Ethan Bennett plays guitar, barbecues as often as possible, and owns a diner. He’s a widower whose life still revolves around his sons, but he wouldn’t have it any other way. When Mickey, a younger man his son Taylor had been helping shows up at the diner, cold to the bone, thin as a rail, Ethan knows he can’t send him away. He expects to help Mickey out for a while, what he doesn’t expect is the way the quiet younger man occupies his every waking moment.
Mickey Underwood has had it rough. All he’s got to show for his twenty-five years on the planet is a high school diploma, no relationship with his parents, and a long list of regrets. If it weren’t for Ethan, Mickey would still be homeless, or probably dead. He knows that as sure as he knows he’s never made a good decision in his life. He should take off and forget about Ethan Bennett, his guitar, and his raspy voice. But he can’t make himself leave and he can’t make himself stop feeling things for Ethan.
Forced to face his feelings for Mickey, Ethan must also deal with the fact that he never came out as bisexual. He’d been happy in his marriage to Sarah, and after her death, he was too busy raising their kids. Even when his boys were all grown up, Ethan still didn’t have a lot of interest in dating. So why does he want to dust off his heart for Mickey? He doesn’t doubt his sons will support his sexuality, but will they be happy that he’s found love with someone their age?
Breakfast at Bennett’s is a four book series consisting of The Virgin, The Jock, The Princess, and The Outcast. It is best enjoyed if read in order.
Excerpt:
“I thought it was going to be just the two of us.” Mickey confessed into Ethan’s shoulder.
Maybe it was easier to be an idiot when he didn’t have to look Mickey in the eyes because the next thing he said was, “Did you want it to be?”
Ethan was suddenly unable to ignore the crackle of anticipation in the air. When Mickey didn’t respond, Ethan said his name. “Mickey?”
Mickey pulled away. Only a little. Just enough to look up at Ethan.
And then suddenly Ethan was being kissed by the softest lips he’d ever had the pleasure of touching. He was too stunned to move at first, and then he was pulling Mickey closer. Winding an arm around Mickey’s waist, he held him tight, trapping their bodies together. His other hand sank into Mickey’s hair and he cradled the back of his head.
God, it was like his whole fucking world shifted sharply to the right and Ethan was just along for the ride now. The kiss went on forever. It was slow and sweet, and mostly tentative at first, but as it built, arousal rolled through Ethan like a slow-moving bank of fog. And when that was all he could see, taste, feel, he pulled away.
Just a little so he could look Mickey in the eyes.
Mickey trembled in his arms. Quaking like a leaf, he clung to Ethan. Ethan cupped Mickey’s cheek and watched the way Mickey closed his eyes. Thick lashes fanned out against his cheeks as he leaned into Ethan’s touch.
“Say anything. Anything except you’re sorry. Anything but that,”
The Outcast is currently available as an e-book and paperback and can be read as part of your Kindle Unlimited Subscription
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